The Pittsburgh-based mobile production company NEP Sharpshooters is providing television coverage of this year’s ESPN Summer X-Games from the Staples Center in Los Angeles and also at the The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. The games run from July 31 through August 3.

NEP Sharpshooters has dispatched three high-definition production trucks for the event coverage and will be using a variety of Thomson Grass Valley gear to air the games in 720p video.

The three production vehicles are equipped with Kalypso switchers. NEP Sharpshooters will be using a mix of Thomson Grass Valley LDK 6000 mkII Worldcam and LDK 8000 high-definition cameras for game coverage. A total of 40 cameras are being deployed. One of the trucks is also equipped with a Thomson Grass Valley Trinix router.

NEP Supershooters has selected a variety of Grass Valley high-definition production equipment from Thomson to televise the inaugural season of ESPN's "NFL Monday Night Football." NEP Supershooters, based in Pittsburgh, will dispatch its all-digital SS-25HD truck to capture all of the live action in the 720 HD for

ESPN and CBS used a wide variety of Grass Valley HD production equipment in coverage of this year’s March Madness NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. Veteran mobile production companies Lyon Video of Columbus, Ohio, NEP Supershooters of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Corplex, in Northfield, Illinois, are long

Thomson Grass Valley multiformat production gear was loaded onto an NEP Shooters digital mobile production unit to produce the SD and HD telecast of the NBA All-Star-Game on Feb. 20. TNT broadcasted the game--1080i HD format-- live from the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colo. at 8:00 p.m. Pittsburgh-based NEP Supershoo

When ESPN turns on its coverage of Winter X Games 12 next week, it will mark "the first ever multi-sport winter action sports event to be presented in HD," according to Rick Alessandri, senior vice president, ESPN consumer products and X Games managing director.